Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and CuriositiesAnonymous
History
Historical Description of Westminster Abbey, Its Monuments and Curiosities
Anonymous
Westminster Abbey
parents are of the Church of England. In perpetual memory whereof Mrs.
Frances Hall, executrix to her aunt, Mrs. Godolphin, has, according to her
will, and by her order, caused this inscription to be engraven on their
monument, 1772."
The next is a neat tablet, in memory of the Rev. EDWARD SMEDLEY, A.M.,
Rector of Powderham, and of North Bovey, in the county of Devon, and from
1774 to 1820, one of the Ushers of Westminster School; born Nov. 5, 1750,
died August 6, 1825. Also of HANNAH, his wife, daughter of George Bellas,
Esq.; born August 21, 1754, died October 17, 1824. This tablet is erected
by their surviving children.
"To you, dear names, these filial thanks we give,
For more than life, for knowledge how to live--
For many a rule with holy wisdom fraught,
And works embodying the creed you taught;
For faith triumphant, tho' the lips which told
Its glowing lessons, now, alas! are cold;
Faith, which proclaiming that the dead but sleep,
Invites us home to those whom here we weep."
--_Westmacott, jun., sculptor._
On the left is a tablet with a coat of arms over, and a music-book under
it:--"Near this place are deposited the remains of BENJAMIN COOKE, Doctor
in Music of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and Organist and
Master of the Choristers of this Collegiate Church for above thirty years.
He departed this life on the 14th of September, 1793, and in the
fifty-ninth year of his age."
ENOCH HAWKINS, Esq., Gentleman of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, and Vicar
Choral of this Collegiate Church, who died on the 9th January, 1847, aged
fifty.
Upon a tablet that has emblems of music,--"To the memory of JAMES
BARTLEMAN, formerly a Chorister and Lay-Clerk of Westminster Abbey, and
Gentleman of his Majesty's Royal Chapel. He was born the 19th of
September, 1769, died the 15th of April, 1821, and was buried in this
Cloister, near his beloved master, Dr. Cooke."
In this walk is erected a monument to W. BUCHAN, M.D., author of the
Domestic Medicine, who died in 1805.
A tablet with inscriptions, to Mr. JOHN BROUGHTON, and his wife Elizabeth;
she died in 1714, and himself in 1789. Also R. MONK, Esq., died in 1831;
his wife CATHERINE, 1832.
"WILLIAM WOOLLETT, born August 22, 1735, died May 22, 1785." The genius of
engraving is represented handing down to posterity the works of painting,
sculpture, and architecture. A monument with his bust on the top.
Near to this will be seen a tablet in memory of ELIZABETH WOODFALL,
younger daughter of the late Henry Sampson Woodfall, having lived many
years in Dean's Yard, contiguous to the Abbey, and died 12th February,
1862, at the age of ninety-three.
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